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Posted By Progressive 8 months ago in Political NewsWASHINGTON (Reuters) -
President Barack Obama opened the door on Tuesday to possible prosecutions of U.S. officials who laid the legal groundwork for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration .
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Progressive8 months ago
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Senate Report Links CIA To Military's Harsh Tactics:
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Read The Senate Armed Services Committee Report-
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Beau78908 months ago
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This link to that NPR story should work:
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FrankHummel8 months ago
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WRONG! Obama hasn't "opened any door" to ANYthing. What he has ACTUALLY done is exactly what he SHOULD be doing --- which is to DECLINE to IMproperly "block any door" in a manner that would be fundamentally INconsistent with eminently SENSIBLE legal principles. The notion being advanced by some that it should even somehow be HIS decision to make to begin with is a complete PERVERSION of any reasonable concept of "justice".
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I wonder how many of the crowd whose ox now stands in danger of being gored would have argued, for example, that the decision about whether to "go after", say, Bill Clinton or Richard Nixon should have rested with the "discretion" of said "chief" executives themselves??
And as for Cheney and Bush --- and indeed their whole Crackpot Cabal of NeoConMen --- I say the following:
I wonder what extent it may have been the case that some of the more egregious outrages by fighters on the "other side" may have actually been ENGENDERED by the kinds of treatment being meted out to THEM in cases when THEY were held as "our" prisoners!
By the time they (for example) beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, "al-Qaeda" MUST SURELY HAVE BEEN WELL AWARE (given escapes and "extractions" of prisoners that had occurred long before then) of much of what was being done to THEIR OWN brethren in captivity. (Only "We the People" over here were "kept in the dark" about all of THAT, after all.)
So then THAT, of course, raises the question of to what extent it has to be considered, as a matter of logic, that a factor MOTIVATING such atrocities as the Pearl murder may well have been what had been and was being done by "our OWN" people!
That is, maybe at least a part of the more-or-less universal outrage at THAT horror REALLY should be directed at "our OWN" murderers and torturers --- who now come along and manage the sheer Chutzpah to argue that "we" have some kind of bounden obligation to "support" them on the things they have done, because THEY were supposedly "protecting" "us"! But did not what they did ACTUALLY ADD to "our" risk?? TALK ABOUT CIRCULAR REASONING!!
Well, HERE is the only such circular reasoning that is actually valid:
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Progressive8 months ago
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Cheney's Right: Release Everything -
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FrankHummel8 months ago
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Actually, for once I agree with Cheney on something. There really SHOULD be a COMPLETE ventilation of the whole "issue" so that "we" can ALL see and hear just who (if anybody) actually comes "out of the woodwork" and argues "in favor" of practices that obviously violate the most elementary norms of human decency.
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Progressive8 months ago
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Fleischer On Torture Memos: ‘I Have No Problem With’ Sleep Deprivation:
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Progressive8 months ago
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Report: Bush policies led to prisoner abuses
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_interrogation_memos_...
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